Uncharted Movie Lead Actor Confirmed

It was finally announced today which of Hollywood’s leading men would play the role of Nathan Drake in the upcoming Uncharted movie. Would it be original actor Nolan North’s choice of Hugh Jackman? Or perhaps Nathan Fillion’s Twitter campaign took off in a big way and studio executives decided to give him a chance?

Nope. The execs have spoken, and they have chosen Marky-Mark Wahlberg. Which is a great choice, because we all know how well he can pull off a videogame movie.

Wahlberg did provide some other movie intel, including the fact that the script calls for Drake’s father and uncle — played by Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, respectively, as long as they can get some contracts hammered out.

It’s not a particularly horrible casting — there have been far, far worse — but I still think picking Wahlberg was the wrong move. He may be able to change my mind in the future, but as of now I remain thoroughly skeptical of the movie being any good (adding family members to action movies as anything other than minor background characters generally doesn’t work well, am I right?).

And seriously, what was so wrong with Nathan Fillion?